I made Jumblie, a daily word search game
I made this game Jumblie in a week, and it was a really fun project made with plain ol' HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
After that week and getting more traffic than I expected, I added some more features like shuffling letters, statistics, autosaving, and some extra mobile-friendliness! I'm working on some accessibility features next, and noodling on internationalization as well.
I actually used some generative AI to seed the themes and words, and I'm going to build a way for players to submit their own puzzles to be featured in the game as well. LLMs are... very bad at generating proper puzzles like this. I had to do quite a bit of manual editing of its output.
After adding some analytics this week, I'm getting between around 450-800 players a day! There's a game show on Netflix called Devil's Plan and the players played a game pretty much exactly like Jumblie, so a good amount of traffic came from that community of viewers.
I'm not making any money from it (yet?), but I've been brainstorming some ideas for things like that, like:
- A proper mobile app
- Ability to see the archives of puzzles
- More than one puzzle a day
I'd love to hear your thoughts on Jumblie! I'm proud of it so far and excited to expand on it over time!
